Open Call: DEFAULT19 THE PROJECT
DEFAULT19 THE PROJECT
RAMDOM ASSOCIATION with Institutional support of Arthub Asia is calling for research-based artists to take part in a 6-day group investigation aimed at ideas related to extreme lands and remote areas. Situated at the southern tip of east Italy on the Mediterranean, Gagliano del Capo poses as an ideal location for participants of the DEFAULT 19 Residency to contribute to an investigation of the extreme land.
Arthub will select 1 or 2 artists from the candidates to support the flight to this 6-day session in Italy, with an afterward collaboration on Arthub’s Exhibition on the Table project and online screening.
The residency program asks what we can learn about being situated in a remote location like Gagliano del Capo. What can it teach us about the contemporary global condition, including sociological, anthropological, political or scientific positions? Can we assign a psychological profile to someone who seeks the end or the extreme? Artistic research and resulting works can bring forward proposed impossibilities and new imaginaries shaped by the characteristics of the extreme land. Approaching “extremity” as a state of mind allows for a confrontation with a contemporary world where national identities are fluid and boundaries are no longer static. The finis terrae may have captured the imagination of dreamers and adventurers, but in what ways can it also serve as a call to action for urgent realities and a methodology to be implemented elsewhere?
During working days participants will individually and collectively develop their research approach in workshops and seminar sessions. They will expand their network and exchange ideas with the support of the programme curators, external guests and lecturers.
Conceived to encourage the research as a separate moment from the production, DEFAULT 19, will function as a platform that aims at re-negotiate the notion of time by nurturing a radically non-productive oriented format. During the six-days of residency, participants are called to be individually and collectively engaged with the landscape in its broader geographical and anthropological extent. The residency will serve as a laboratory and as an experience to nurture new forms of thoughts and approaches to the topic of the extreme lands.
The residency will be finalized afterword by producing a publication edited by Ramdom and release by the end of the year. All participants will contribute to the publication with a text.
The call is open to all disciplines: artists, curators, and researchers; or coming from other disciplines: writers, anthropologists, linguists, architects, urbanists, geographers and, professionals from scientific disciplines.
Works will be in English.
This is an international call open to any artist of any nationality and at least 21 years of age. Application of mid-career artists is encouraged.
Accommodation will be provided by Ramdom
Participants’ travel expenses will be cover by the Institutional Partners.
Active and collaborative participation to the program is mandatory. Participants are expected to stay in Gagliano del Capo (LE) for the whole duration of the project (workshop and residency, 18-23 June 2019)
Candidates can submit their applications from March 27th to May 10th 2019.
The selected participants will be contacted via e-mail by mid-May 2019
to confirm their participation and sign the Participation Agreement.
HOW TO APPLY
Applicants are invited to send an email to default@ramdom.net with the Subject: “Application_Default19 yourname & lastname” and the following attachments:
Application form completed with the required information (Annex A, online);
An Artist Statement detailing how your practice relates to the extreme land theme and your particular focus of interest, preferably detailing a previously realized project OR a paper on a theoretical subject related to the thematic framework. (in.doc or pdf format, max 700 words).
Copy of your Identity card or Passport (please make sure the expiration date is visible);
Curriculum Vitae (biography) with your personal data, your educational background and former artistic experiences (no more than 2 x A4) (in.doc or pdf format);
Portfolio with images of recent works or links to the useful documentation (video, audio, sketches, etc.) – max. 5 images or 1MB/ Video link via Vimeo/YouTube or website link;
Signed Release Note (Download Annex B here);
PLEASE NOTE that all the documents have to be submitted in English. Other languages will not be admitted to the selection.
SELECTION AND PROMOTION
The winning applications will be determined by the selection committee based on the evaluation of: general presentation, creative vision, coherence between previous works and the topics of Default19, critical perspective, and sustainability of new potential work.
ORGANISERS
Defaul19 is organized by Ramdom with the Institutionalsupport of the Apulia Region
CURATORIAL TEAM
Heba Y. Amin is an Egyptian visual artist, researcher and lecturer. She is currently teaching at Bard College Berlin, is a BGSMSC doctorate fellow at Freie Universität, and a recent resident artist at the Bethanien artist residency program in Berlin. Amin has received many grants, including the DAAD grant and the Rhizome Commissions grant. She is the co-founder of the Black Athena Collective, the curator of visual art for the MIZNA journal (US), and curator of DEFAULT since 2013. Furthermore, Amin is also one of the artists behind the subversive graffiti action on the set of the television series “Homeland” which received worldwide media attention.
Francesca Girelli is a curator and writer based between London and Shanghai. For the past five years she has been working as curator and researcher for Arthub Asia, she is associate editor of Kaleidoscope Asia magazine, and has been part of DEFAULT curatorial team since 2013.
In November 2016 Francesca has joined the Asian Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum to coordinate the development of a ground-breaking digital project focused on promoting a cross- cultural analysis of Western and Asian iconography. She is currently Content Operations Manager at frieze, London, UK; Curator at Ramdom Association, Italy
Paolo Mele, (1981), PhD in Communication & New Technologies at IULM University in Milan with a project research on Arts and New Media. He is the founder and director of Ramdom, an art organization based in the heel of Italy.
Since 2015 He is director of Lastation, arts and cultural space located on the first floor of the last train station on the Southern est point of Italy (Stazione Gagliano – Leuca). He has collaborated with several international organisations such as the New Art Exchange (Nottingham, UK), Fondazione Veronesi (Italy), Fondazione Chivasso (Italy), World Bank (Washington, USA) and others. He was Visiting Researcher at the New School for Public Engagement in New York City from November 2013 to October 2015. From 2008 to 2012 I worked for the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and Mediterranean (Bjcem) as Project manager. He is currently Project Manager for the Foundation Materal Basilicata 2019.
Claudio Zecchi is an independent curator whose field of research aims at investigating, in a state of cultural nomadism, a new vision and reading of the public sphere exploring the mutual relationship between the practices – artistic, curatorial and institutional – the territory and the local communities.
He has investigated topic such as activism (Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan); the role that artists, curators, institutions perform in contemporary society (Residency Unlimited, New York); the topic of the language (New Art Exchange, Nottingham), the topic of architecture and urbanism (PIVÔ Pesquisa, São Paulo) and the topic of participation (TOKAS_Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo).
From 2018 he is part of Ramdom’s curatorial team.
Amongst the lecturers participating in the previous editions were: Alessio Antoniolli (director at Gasworks & Triangle Network), Andrea Lissoni (Senior Curator at Tate), Carlos Casas (artist and filmmaker), Lewis Biggs (former curator of Biennial of Liverpool), Celine Condorelli (artist), Desire Machine Collective (artists), Phill Niblock (composer, filmmaker), Filipa Ramos (Editor in Chief of art-agenda and curator of Vdrome), Davide Quadrio (director and founder of Arthub Asia).
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